Jesus told us to become complete.

Monday, 6/19/17

Paul could say, “In
everything we are ministers of God,” and that had me wondering how we rank in
generosity.

The most generous man I knew
was Father Phil Crosby who let himself be captured by the Reds on the chance he
could help other prisoners. For three years he gathered dried weeds for their
fires every day. They, in turn, gave him credit for keeping them alive.

Phil would quote St. Pau,
saying, “No one lives as his own master. No one dies as his own master. Both in
life and death, we are he Lord’s.”

You could compare Phil to a girl
named Mimi we had in one of our school
plays. She introduced herself saying, “Me, I’m Mimi, yes Mimi. No one worries about
me, not about Mimi.”

Between Phil’s generosity and
Mimi’s selfishness where would you and I rank?